Moses
Wheat
Born about in Southwark, Surrey, England
[uncertain]
[uncertain]Son of Unknown Wheat
and [mother unknown]
Brother of
Joshua Wheat
Husband of
Thomasine (Unknown) Wheat
— married
1640 in Concord, Massachusetts Bay Colony
Descendants 
Father of
Samuel Wheat, Hannah (Wheat) Stratton, Rebecca Wheat, Jane Wheat, Moses Wheat, John Wheat, Aaron Wheat, Joshua Wheat and Sarah (Wheat) Hill
Died
at about age 84
in Concord, Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay
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Biography
Moses was probably born about 1616 at Southwark, Surrey[1]
He immigrated to Massachusetts before 1640,[1] about 1636.
He married Tamzen Fox.[1] They had eleven children.[1]
- Moses 1639-1641
- Samuel 1640-1714
- Hannah 1641-1641
- Hannah 1642-
- Rebecca 1644-1721
- Jane -1648
- Moses -1720
- John 1649-1715
- Sarah
- Aaron -1658
- Joshua -1708
He died 6 May 1700 at Concord. "Moses Wheat Sener dyed may ye 6th day, 1700."[2]
Moses Wheat 's will was written on September 19, 1691. In it he names: [3]
- eldest son Samuel Wheat
- son John Wheat
- son Moses Wheat
- daughter Rebecca Wheat
- son Joshua Wheat
- daughter Hannah Stratton
- daughter Sarah Hill [3]
On May 14, 1700, the above sons - Samuel, John, Joshua and Moses, daughter Rebecca Wheat, Sarah Hill and Isaac Hill and Samuel Stratton acknowledged their acceptance of the will of their father Moses Wheat as written in 1691. [3]
His estate inventory, submitted to the court on June 11, 1700 was assessed at L421:02, with L350 being real and personal estate and L71: 02 being bills due to the estate. [3]
Research notes
Great Migration Directory: Wheat, Moses: Unknown; 1640; Concord [CoVR 3; MPR Case #24203; GM 2:7:323-24; Silas C. Wheat, Wheat Genealogy: A History of the Wheat Family in America (Brooklyn, New York, 1903)].
Torrey: NE Marriages: WHEAT, Moses (-1700) & Tamzen [BROOKS?] (-1689); by 1640; Concord (Samuel RAYNER in will 1669 mentions bro. WHEATE; Moses W-, a witness) {Fox Fam. News 3:10; Wheat 42}
Info on wife: https://archive.org/details/foxfamilynews00soci/page/129/mode/2up?q=moses
Sources
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Wheat, S. C., & Scranton, H. D. L. (1960). Wheat genealogy. Guilford, Conn.: Shore Line Times Pub. Co. p.1
- ↑ Tolman, George. Concord, Massachusetts Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1635-1850 (Beacon Press, Boston, Mass., 1895) Page 58.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Case 24203: p. 1-5: Middlesex County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1648-1871.Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2014. (From records supplied by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Archives. Digitized images provided by FamilySearch.org) https://www.americanancestors.org/DB536/i/14469/24203-co2/38437130
See also:
- Middlesex County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1648-1871.Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2014. (From records supplied by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Archives. Digitized images provided by FamilySearch.org) Case 24203: Will
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https://ia800504.us.archive.org/8/items/wheatgenealogyhi00byuwhea/wheatgenealogyhi00byuwhea.pdf
Silas died in 1912 and his intended subsequent volume sat undone for many years.
Helen Love Scranton updated Silas' work 50 years later after obtaining his manuscript from his family, as she explains in her work, which is linked by Paula Cary above.